Bombings force Tube to put mobile phones on hold

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PLANS to install mobile phone aerials at subterranean London Underground stations have been reviewed after it emerged that mobiles were used to trigger the bombs in Madrid last week.

Tube managers had been planning to hold a trial later this year in which passengers would get a clear phone signal even when hundreds of feet underground. But the scheme may now be abandoned if it emerges that some of the bombs were activated by calls to mobile phones sitting inside the bags which were abandoned on packed commuter trains.